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Mosaic Essays 

Friendship- Love 

Happiness -Nature & 

Success 

Be glad of life because it 
gives you the chance to love 
and to work and to play 
and to look up at the stars. 

Henry van Dyke. 
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San Francisco and New York 



Every year I live I am more 
convinced that the waste of life lies 
in the love we have not given, the 
powers we have not used, the self- 
ish prudence that will risk nothing, 
and which, shirking pain, misses 
happiness as well. No one ever 
yet was the poorer in the long run 
for having once in a lifetime " let 
out all the length of all the reins' 1 
Mary Cbolmondeley. 



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Mosaic Essays, Copyright, 1906 
Friendship, Copyright,-! 901 

Love, Copyright, 1905 

Happiness, Copyright, 1903 

Nature, Copyright, 1903 

Success, Copyright, 1903 



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THE ESSAYS 



FRIENDSHIP Page i 

So long as we love we serve ; so long as we 
are loved by others I would almost say that we 
are indispensable ; and no man is useless while 
be has a friend. R L S 

LOVE Page 19 

Owe no man any thing but to love one 
another , for be that lovetb another bath ful- 

■P Paul to the Romans. 

HAPPINESS- Page 37 

In every fart and corner of our life, to 
lose oneself is to be gainer; to forget oneself 
is to be happy. R L g 

NATURE Page 55 

Flower in the crannied wall, 

I pluck you out of the crannies , 

/ bold you here j root and all, in my band t 

Little flower — but IF I could understand 

What you are, root and all, and all in all, 

I should know what God and man is. 

Tennyson. 

SUCCESS Page 73 

The truth which another man has won 
from nature or from life is not our truth until 
we have lived it. Only that becomes real or 
helpful to any man which has cost the sweat 
of bis brow, the effort of bis brain, or the 
anguish of bis soul. He wbo would be wise 
must daily earn bis wisdom. 

David Starr Jordan. 



FRIENDSHIP 



// is a name 

Virtue can only answer to : couldst 
thou 

Unite into one all goodness what- 
soe'er 

Mortality can boast of, thou shalt 
find 

Vhe circle narrow, bounded to con- 
tain 

This swelling treasure. Every good 
admits 

Degrees; but this, being so good, it 
can not; 

For he's no friend who's not super- 
lative. shirky% 



Friendship is love for another 
because of what that other is in 
himself or for that other s sake, 
and not because of what that other 
is to the loving one. . . . Friend- 
ship is love with the selfish element 
eliminated. It is an out-going and 
an on-going affection, wholly and 
inherently disinterested, and in no 
sense contingent upon any reciprocal 
relation between its giver and its 
object, nor yet upon its return or 
recognition. . . . Friendship, in 
short, is love apart from love's 
claim, or love* s craving. . . . This 
is pure friendship, friendship with- 
out alloy. This is friendship at its 
truest and best; and this it is that 
makes the best and truest friend- 
ship so rare, so difficult of concep- 
tion, so liable to misconception. 

Trumbull. 



Friendship 



Ah, friend, let us be true 

To one another! For the world which 

seems 
To lie before us like a land of dreams, 
So various, so beautiful, so new, 
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor 

light, 
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for 

pain; 
And we are here as on a darkling plain 
Swept with confused alarms of struggle 

and flight, 
Where ignorant armies clash by night. 

— Matthew Arnold. 
^^» v^— ^-* 

O friend, my bosom said, 

Through thee alone the sky is arched, 

Through thee the rose is red, 

All things through thee take nobler 

form 
And look beyond the earth, 
And is the mill-round of our faith, 
A sun-path in thy worth ! 
Me, too, thy nobleness has taught 
To master my despair; 
The fountains of my hidden life 
Are through thy friendship fair. 

— Emerson. 



Friendship 



A friend may well be reckoned the 
masterpiece of nature. — Emerson. £ £ £ 
Friendship is love without either flowers 
or veil. —J. C. Hare. <j> £ £ Friendship is 
that by which the world is most blessed 

and receives most good. — Jeremy Taylor. 

& & & Friendship is the only point in 
human affairs concerning the benefit of 
which all, with one voice, agree.— Cicero. 
$. $. ^t Friendship is the highest de- 
gree of perfection in society. — Montaigne. 
«§> $. £ Friendship is a word the very 
sight of which in print makes the heart 

Warm. — Augustine Birrell. ^ ^> £ Friend is 

a word of royal tone ; friend is a poem 
all alone. — A Persian Poet. £ £ £ Friend- 
ship divine, true happiness of heaven, 
sole motion of the sole wherein excess 
is righteous. — Voltaire. £ «j> ^* The only 
rose without thorns is friendship. — 
MUe.de Scuderi. £ £, £ Reason is the 
torch of friendship, judgment its guide, 
tenderness its aliment.— De Bonald. ^,^>^> 



In Analysis 



We can never replace a friend. When 
a man is fortunate enough to have sev- 
eral, he finds they are all different. No 
one has a double in friendship. — Schiller. 
&>&>& We talk of choosing our 
friends, but friends are self-elected. 

— Emerson. £ £ £ A friend you have to 
buy won't be worth what you pay for 

him. — George D. Prentice. £ £, ^> You Can 

not extort friendship with a cocked 
pistol. — Lindey Smith. £££ There are 
no rules for friendship. It must be left 
to itself. We can not force it any 
more than love. — Hazlitt. ^.^^ To 
contract ties of friendship with any one 
is to contract friendship with his virtue. 

— Confucius. £ ^J, <jt True happiness con- 
sists not in the multitude of friends, but 
in their worth and choice. — Benjonson. 
^.^ $. There are plenty of acquaint- 
ances in the world, but very few real 

friends. — Chinese Maxim. ^ «§> £ People 

who always receive you with great cor- 



Friendship 



diality rarely care for you. Your true 
friends make you a partaker of their 

humors. — Manlay H. Pike. ^ ^ ^ Actions, 

not words, are the true criterion of the 

attachment of friends. — George Washington. 

^t^.^. Rare as true love is, it is less 
rare than true friendship. — La Rochefoucauld. 
^t^.^. Not even love should rank 
above true friendship's name. — w. S. Gilbert. 
Above our life we 

love a steadfast friend. Constancy 

— Marlowe. £££ True friendship be- 
tween man and man is infinite and im- 
mortal. — Plato. £ £ £ True friends, nor 
death, nor separating fate can e'er di- 
vide. — Lavater. ^> f§f. & A friend loveth 
at all times, and is born as a brother for 
adversity. —Solomon. ^.^.^ Friendship 
that flows from the heart can not be 
frozen by adversity, as the water that 
flows from the spring can not congeal 

in winter. — J. Fenimore Cooper. ^. ^> £ 

Convey thy love to thy friend, as an 



Constancy 



arrow to the mark, to stick there; not 
as a ball against the wall to rebound 

back tO thee. — - Francis Quarks. £ £ £ No- 
ble friends are a pledge to the noble of 
God and the future; true friends, nor 
death, nor separating fate can divide. 
— Lavater. ^ ^ ^ Love is a sudden blaze 
which soon decays; friendship is like 
the sun's eternal rays ; not daily benefits 
exhaust the flame, it still is giving, and 
still burns the same. — Gay. ^«£^> First 
on thy friend deliberate with thyself; 
pause, ponder, sift; not eager in thy 
choice, nor jealous of the chosen ; fix- 
ing, fix ; judge before friendship, then 

Confide till death. — Edward Young. ^ £ £ 

We were friends from the first mo- 
ment. Sincere attachments begin at 

the beginnings. — Joseph JefFerson. £££ 

Friends, though they be as the friends 
of Job, or else death !— The Talmud. ^.«£^. 
All love which depends on something, 
when the thing ceases, the love ceases ; 



8 Friendship 

but such love as does not depend on 
anything, ceases not forever. — The Talmud. 
& & & Forsake not an old friend, for 
the new is not comparable to him ; a 
new friend is as new wine ; when it is 
old thou shalt drink it with pleasure. 
— Proverbs. £ ^ ^> While I am I, and 
you are you, so long as the world con- 
tains us both, me the loving and you the 
loth, while the one eludes must the other 

pursue. — Robert Browning. £ £ ^ Old 

books, old wine, old nankin blue, all 
things, in short, to which belong the 
charm, the grace that Time makes 
strong — all these I prize, but (entrenous) 
old friends are best. — Austin Dobson. ^^.^b 
" Entreat me not to leave thee, and to 
return from following after thee: for 
whither thou goest, I will go; and 
where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy 
people shall be my people, and thy God 
my God. Where thou diest, will I die, 
and there will I be buried. The Lord 



Constancy 



do so to me, and more also, if aught 
but death part thee and me." — Book of Ruth. 
^^^ Ointment and perfume rejoice 
the heart ; so doth the sweetness of a 
man's friend that cometh of hearty 
counsel. Thine own friend and thy 
father's friend forsake not. — Solomon. 
^ & ^ Let the honor of thy friend be 
dear unto thee as thine own. — The Talmud. 
Friendship renders 
ItS JxCWCtru prosperity more bril- 
liant, while it lightens adversity by shar- 
ing it and making its burden common. 
— Cicero. £$.$. A friend shares my 
sorrow and makes it but a moiety ; but 
he swells my joy and makes it double. 
—Jeremy Taylor. ^. «£. £ Under the mag- 
netism of friendship the modest man 
becomes bold ; the shy, confident ; the 
lazy, active ; or the impetuous, prudent 
and peaceful. —Thackeray, ^^i^ It is a 
good thing to be rich, and a good thing 
to be strong, but it is a better thing to 



io Friendship 

be beloved of many friends. —Euripides. 
^.J§£$. For there is no man that im- 
parteth his joys to his friend, but he 
joyeth the more ; and no man that im- 
parteth his griefs to his friend, but he 
grieveth the less. — Bacon. ^>^^ Of all 
felicities the most charming is that of 
a firm and gentle friendship. It sweet- 
ens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, 
and counsels us in all extremities. 

— Seneca. <£ ^ £ Ah, how good it feels 

— the hand of an old friend ! — Longfellow. 
^.^^fe He that hath gained a friend 

hath given hostages tO fortune.— Shakespeare. 

& & & The comfort of having a friend 
may be taken away, but not that of 
having had one. — Seneca. ^> ^. ^> You 
may not know my supreme happiness 
at having one on earth whom I can call 
friend.— Charles Lamb. «|» «£. «§►. How were 
Friendship possible ? In mutual devoted- 
ness to the Good and True : otherwise 
impossible, except as armed neutrality, 



Its Reward n 

or hollow commercial league. A man, 
be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient 
for himself; yet were ten men, united 
in Love, capable of being and of doing 
what ten thousand singly would fail in. 
Infinite is the help man can yield to man. 
— Carlyle. «|* «£ «£ What need we have 
any friends, if we should ne'er have need 
of 'em? They were the most needless 
creatures living, should we ne'er have use 
for 'em, and would most resemble sweet 
instruments hung up in cases that keep 

their SOUnds tO themselves. — Shakespeare. 

^t^.^. I would not live without the 
love of my friends.— John Keats, ^i^^> 
When true friends meet in adverse hour, 
'tis like a sunbeam through a shower; 
a watery ray an instant seen, the darkly 

closing clouds between. — Sir Walter Scott. 

Let friendship creep 

Cautionary gendy to a height; 

if it rush to it, it may soon run itself 

OUt of breath. — Thomas Fuller. «§> «£ ^. 



12 Friendship 

There are many moments in friendship, 
as in love, when silence is beyond 
words. — Ouida. ^ ^ ^ Too late we 
learn a man must hold his friend un- 
judged, accepted, faultless to the end. 
—John Boyle O'Reilly. £ ^ £ Take heed 
of thy friends. A faithful friend is a 
strong defense; and he that hath found 
such a one hath found a treasure. Noth- 
ing doth countervail a faithful friend, 
and his excellency is invaluable. — Proverbs. 
^ ^ ^ We must not expect our friend 
to be above humanity. — Ouida. ^ £ ^> 
A friend whom you have been gain- 
ing during your whole life, you ought 
not to be displeased with in a moment. 
A stone is many years becoming a ruby ; 
take care that you do not destroy it in 
an instant against another stone. — Saadi. 
^.^.^ We must love our friends 
for their sakes rather than our own. 

— Charlotte Bronte. £ «j> «£ Friendship is 

usually treated by the majority of man- 



Cautionary 13 

kind as a tough and everlasting thing 
which will survive all manner of bad 
treatment. But this is an exceedingly* 
great and foolish error ; it may die in 
an hour of a single unwise word. — Ouida. 
«£.$.$. The holy passion of Friend- 
ship is of so sweet and steady and loyal 
and enduring a nature that it will last 
through a whole lifetime, if not 

asked to lend money. — Samuel L. Clemens. 

& & &> There is no folly equal to that 
of throwing away friendship in a world 
where friendship is so rare. — Edward Bulwer. 
& $. $. It is more disgraceful to dis- 
trust than to be deceived by our friends. 
—La Rochefoucauld. «£ «|* ^> Thy friends thou 
hast and their adoption tried ; grapple 
them to thy soul with hoops of steel, 
but do not dull thy palm with en- 
tertainment of each new-hatched, un- 
fledged Comrade. —Shakespeare. «£ £ ^ 

Who friendship with a knave hath made 
is judged a partner in the trade.— John Gay, 



14 Friendship 

In love women exceed the generality 
of men, but in friendship we have infin- 
itely the advant- 

age. - La Bruycre. MiM dtld Women 

No friendship is so cordial as that be- 
tween girls ; no hatred so intense as that 

of Woman for Woman. — Walter Savage Landor. 

Love Him, and keep Him ^ . . . 
for thy Friend, who, when J 

all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suf- 
fer thee to perish at the last. — Thos. a Kempis. 
?ft & ^. Hush, I pray you ! what if that 
friend happen to be — God ! — Browning- 
So if I live or die to ^ 

serve my friend, 'tis for * n * r WUte 
my love, — 'tis for my friend alone, and 
not for any rate this friendship bears in 
heaven or on earth. — George Eliot. £ £ £, 
If a man should importune me to give a 
reason why I loved my friend, I find it 
could not otherwise be expressed than 
by the answer, " Because he was he ; 

because I Was I." — Montaigne. £, £ £ 



In Tribute 15 

I am distressed for thee, my brother 
Jonathan : very pleasant hast thou been 
unto me ; thy love to me was wonder- 
fill, passing the love of women. —David. 
& ^ & Ah, friendship, stronger in thy 
might than time and space, as faith than 
sight ! rich festival with thy red wine 
my friend and I will keep, in courts 
divine. — Helen Jackson. ^ ^ ^ Whereof 
the man, that with me trod this planet, 
was a noble type, appearing ere the 
times were ripe, that friend of mine 

who lives with God.— Tennyson. £ £ ^» 

A friend can not 
And iLncmieS be known in pros- 
perity, and an enemy can not be hidden 
in adversity. —Theophrasms. ^^>jg> He 
who has a thousand friends has not 
a friend to spare, and he who has one 
enemy will meet him everywhere. 

— Omar Khayyam. ^ ^£ £ When you 

make a new friend, think of the future 
enemy who is already in him.— Schopenhauer. 



16 Friendship 

Friendship is to be valued for what 
there is in it, not for what can be got- 
ten out of it. When two people ap- 
preciate each other because each has 
found the other convenient to have 
around, they are not friends, they are 
simply acquaintances, with a business 
understanding. A true friend is always 
useful in the higher sense : but we 
should beware of thinking of our 
friends as brother members of a mutual 
benefit association, with its periodical 
demands and threats of suspension for 
non-payment of dues. — Trumbull. 

Sheik Schubli, taken sick, was borne 
one day unto the Hospital. A host 
the way behind him thronged. " Who 
are you?" Schubli cried. "We are 
your friends/' the multitude replied. 
Sheik Schubli threw a stone at them ; 
they fled. " Come back, ye false pre- 
tenders !" then he said ; " a friend is one 
who, ranked among his foes by him he 
loves, and stoned, and beat with blows, 
will still remain as friendly as before, 
and to his friendship only add the more." 

— Jamee. Translated by Alger, 



In the hour of distress and mis- 
ery the eye of every mortal turns 
to friendship ; in the hour of glad- 
ness and conviviality % what is your 
want? It is friendship. When 
the heart overflows with gratitude ', 
or with any other sweet and sacred 
sentiment, what is the word to 
which it would give utterance? 
A friend. w% 8 Landgn 



LOVE 



Love, indeed, is light from heaven; 
A spark of that immortal fire 
With angels shared, by Allah 

given, 
'To lift from earth one low desire. 
Devotion wafts the mind above, 
But heaven itself descends in love; 
A feeling from the Godhead caught, 
To wean from self each sordid 

thought; 
A ray of Him who form d the 

whole; 
A glory circling round the soul. 

Byron. 



True loves the gift which God has 

given 
To man alone beneath the heaven ; 
It is not fantasy s hot fire *, 
Whose wishes , soon as grant ed, fly ; 
It liveth not in fierce desire , 
With dead desire it doth not die; 
It is the secret sympathy > 
The silver link, the silken tie y 
Which heart to heart, and mind to 

mind. 
In body and in soul can bind. 

San. 



Love 21 



Abou-ben-Adhem ( may his tribe increase ! ) 
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, 
And saw, within the moonlight in his room, 
Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, 
An angel writing in a book of gold: — 
Exceeding peace had made Ben-Adhem bold, 
And to the presence in the room he said, 
" What writest thou ? " The vision rais'd 

its head, 
And with a look made of all sweet accord, 
Answer' d, "The names of those who love 

the Lord." 
" And is mine one ? " said Abou. " Nay, 

not so," 
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more low, 
But cheerily still ; and said, " I pray thee, 

then, 
Write me as one that loves his fellow men." 

The angel wrote, and vanished. The next 

night 
It came again with a great wakening light, 
And show'd the names whom love of God 

had bless' d, 
And lo ! Ben-Adhem's name led all the rest. 

— Leigh Hunt. 

£*£ 

Love is that childlike art, that clothes the 

Real 
With the Ideal, its own simple self; 
Not the poor poet's lifelong grand despair 
Forever seeking that he cannot find. 

— Frederick Tennyson. 



22 hove 

No man can afford to invest his being 
in anything lower than faith, hope, 
love, — these three, the greatest of 

which is love. — Henry Ward Beecher. £ £ ^. 

Love is swift, sincere, * / 

Analysis 

pious, pleasant, gentle, ^ 

strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long- 
suffering, manly, and never seeking her 
own, for wheresoever a man seeketh 
his own; then he falleth from love. 

— Thomas a Kempis. £ £, £ Love Suffereth 

long, and is kind; love envieth not; 
love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed 
up, doth not behave itself unseemly, 
seeketh not her own, is not easily pro- 
voked, thinketh no evil ; rejoiceth not 
in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth ; 
beareth all things, believeth all things, 
hopeth all things, endureth all things. 

— Paul to the Corinthians. *J. £ £ Love, which 

is the essence of God, is not for levity, 
but for the total worth of man. — Emerson. 
^-^«§> Love is not altogether a delirium. 



Analysis 23 

yet it has many points in common 
therewith. I call it rather a discerning 
of the infinite in the finite, — of the 
ideal made real. — Carlyle. ^> £ £ The 
principle of life, the element of religion, 
the link between the soul and God, — 
love. — Lew Wallace. £ £ £ Love is the 
life of the soul. It is the harmony of 

the Universe. — William Ellery Channing. £ £. ^ 

True love is that which ennobles the 
personality, fortifies the heart, and sanc- 
tifies the existence. — Amid. ^.^^ And 
love, life's fine center, includes heart and 

mind. — Owen Meredith. £ £ 4^ True love 

is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. — Lamartine. 
&> k£* ^ Pure love cannot merely do all, 
but is all. — Richter. £ £ £ Love is the 
river of life in this world. Think not 
that ye know it who stand at the little 
tinkling rill, the first small fountain. 
Not until you have gone through the 
rocky gorges, and not lost the stream ; 
not until you have gone through the 



24 Love 

meadow, and the stream has widened 
and deepened until fleets could ride 
on its bosom ; not until beyond the 
meadow you have come to the unfath- 
omable ocean, and poured your treasures 
into its depths, — not until then can you 

know what love is. — Henry Ward Beecher. 

^L & & Love is ever the beginning of 
knowledge. — Carlyle. ^> ^* £ Love is im- 
pulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse 
wisely directed.— Haweis. ^ £, £ Our love 
is inwrought in our enthusiasm as eledlri- 
city is inwrought in the air, exalting its 
power by a subtle presence. — George Eliot. 
Love never faileth ; but Supreme 
whether there be proph- 
ecies, they shall fail ; whether there be 
tongues, they shall cease ; whether there 
be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 
For we know in part and we prophesy- 
in part. But when that which is perfect 
is come, then that which is in part shall 
be done away. When I was a child, I 



Supreme 25 

spake as a child, I understood as a child, 
I thought as a child : but when I became 
a man, I put away childish things. For 
now we see through a glass, darkly ; but 
then face to face : now I know in part ; 
but then shall I know even as also I am 
known. And now abideth faith, hope, 
love, these three : but the greatest of 

these is love. — Paul to the Corinthians. £ £ £ 

In the sublimest flights of the soul, 
redtitude is never surmounted, love is 
never outgrown. — Emerson. ij> ^.^, Love 
is the eldest and noblest and might- 
iest of the gods, and the chiefest 
author and giver of virtue in life and 
of happiness after death. — Plato. ^, ^> £ 
-r^ . . For God so loved the world, 

Divine . . . . .- 

that he gave his only be- 
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in 
Him should not perish, but have ever- 
lasting life. —Jesus, Holy Writ. ^. £ £ For 
I am persuaded that neither death, nor 
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor 



26 Love 

powers, nor things present, nor things 
to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any- 
other creature, shall be able to separate 
us from the love of God, which is in 

Christ JeSUS, our Lord. — Paul to the Romans. 

&&& Greater love hath no man than 
this, that a man lay down his life for 
his friends. As the Father hath loved 
me, so have I loved you : continue 

ye in my love. —Jesus, Holy Writ. ^ £ £ 

There is nothing holier in ^ 
this life of ours than the 
first consciousness of love — the first 
fluttering of its silken wings — the first 
rising sound and breath of that wind 
which is so soon to sweep through the 
soul, to purify or to destroy. — Longfellovr. 
& ^£ $. Love one human being purely 
and warmly, and you will love alL 
The heart in this heaven, like the wan- 
dering sun, sees nothing, from the dew- 
drop to the ocean, but a mirror which 
it warms and fills. — Richter. £ £ £* Let no 



Human 27 

man think he is loved by any man, 
when he loves no man. — Epictetus. ^ «j* ^. 
To love for the sake of being loved is 
human, but to love for the sake of lov- 
ing is angelic. — Lamartine. £ j£ £ So long 

as we love we serve. — R. L. s. £ £ ^ 
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy- 
self.— Jesus, Holy Writ. £ £, ^ Without dis- 
tinction, without calculation, without 
procrastination, love. Lavish it upon 
the poor, where it is very easy ; espe- 
cially upon the rich, who often need it 
most ; most of all upon our equals, 
where it is very difficult, and for 
whom perhaps we each do least of all. 

— Henry Dmmmond. £ £ ^> We are all bom 

for love. It is the principle of exist- 
ence and its only end. — Disraeli. ^» ^> £ 
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, 
or bind so fast, as love can do with 
only a single thread. — Lord Bacon. ^ £ ^ 
The consciousness of being loved softens 
the keenest pang, even at the moment 



28 hove 

of parting ; yea, even the eternal fare- 
well is robbed of half its bitterness 
when uttered in accents that breathe 

love to the last sigh. — Addison. ^^.^ 

If a man does not exercise his arm he 
develops no biceps muscle ; and if a 
man does not exercise his soul, he ac- 
quires no muscle in his soul, no strength 
of character, no vigor of moral fiber, 
nor beauty of spiritual growth. Love is 
not a thing of enthusiastic emotion. It 
is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous ex- 
pression of the whole round Christian 
character — the Christlike nature in its 
fullest development. And the constitu- 
ents of this great character are only 
to be built up by ceaseless practice. 

— Henry Drummond. <£ ^. ^> Love that has 

nothing but beauty to keep it in good 
health is short lived, and apt to have 
ague fits. —Erasmus. ^> £ £ There is no 
happiness in the world in which love 
does not enter; and love is but the 



Human 2g 

discovery of ourselves in others, and the 

delight in the recognition. —Alexander Smith. 

^.^t^. It is best to love wisely, no 
doubt ; but to love foolishly is bet- 
ter than not to be able to love at all. 

— Thackeray. «£ ^> ^ 'Tis better to have 
loved and lost than never to have 
loved at all. — Tennyson. «§. £ £ Thy love 
to me was wonderful, passing the 

love of Women. — David to Jonathan. £ ^ £ 

j * 7 Even He that died for 

Maternal . . . 

us upon the cross, in the 
last hour, in the unutterable agony of 
death, was mindful of His mother, 
as if to teach us that this holy love 
should be our last worldly thought, — 
the last point of earth from which the 
soul should take its flight for heaven. 

— Longfellow. «£ & £ There is an enduring 
tenderness in the love of a mother to a 
son, that transcends all other affections 
of the heart. It is neither to be chilled 
by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, 



30 Love 

nor weakened by worthlessness, nor 

Stifled by ingratitude. — Washington Irving. 

^.^.$. "It is a wonderful thing, a 
mother ; other folks can love you, but 
only your mother understands. She 
works for you, looks after you, loves 
you, forgives you anything you may 
do, understands you, and then the only 
thing bad she ever does to you is to die 

and leave yOU." — Baroness Von Huttcn. ^ ^> £ 

There is no love like the good old 
love — the love that mother gave us. 
— Eugene Field. £ £ ^> A mother never is 
afraid of speaking angrily to any child, 
since love, she knows, is justified 

of love. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning. £ £ ^> 

And Jacob served seven ^ 

c r> u i j Constancy 

years ior Rachel ; and J 

they seemed unto him but a few days, 
for the love he had to her. — Genesis. 
& & ^L It is confessed that love changed 
often doth nothing ; nay, it is nothing : 
for love where it is kept fixed to its 



Constancy ji 

first object, though it burn not, yet 
it warms and cherishes, so it needs 
no transplantation or change of soul 
to make it fruitful. — Suckling. ^ «£ £, 
Loving is more than length of days, or 
the ruby lips and the blooming cheek. 
— Walter C. Smith. £ £ ^. And love is the 
sun of life, yet e'en love compels the 
life of an ampler love which death re- 
veals.— C w. Stubbs. £££ Unless you 
can swear for life or death, oh! fear 

tO Call it loving. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 

& & & For time's long years may sever, 
but love that liveth ever, calls back the 
early rapture — lights again the angel 

face. — C F. Alexander. £ £ ^ I will We 

thee to the death, and out beyond into 
the dream beyond. — Tennyson. ^ ^ ^ 
jy j Eye hath not seen, nor ear 

heard, neither have en- 
tered into the heart of men, the things 
which God hath prepared for them that 

love Him. — Paul to the Corinthians. «j> ^ Q 



32 Love 

Be perfedt, be of good comfort, be of 
one mind, live in peace; and the God 
of love and peace shall be with you. 

— Paul to the Corinthians. ^. £ £ The king- 
dom of God is in the realm of your 
own consciousness. The law of the 
kingdom is Love. Obey this law, 
keep the commandments which grow 
out of the law of Love, and all 
other things shall be added unto you. 

— Theodore F. Seward. ^ ^ ^ For if ye love 

them which love you, what reward 
have ye ! — Jesus, Holy Writ. £ £ £ Where- 
fore I say unto thee, her sins, which 
are many, are forgiven; for she loved 
much; but to whom little is forgiven, 

the same loveth little. —Jesus, Holy Writ. 

£ £ ^> By love's delightful influence 
the attack of ill-humour is resisted, the 
violence of our passions abated, the bit- 
ter cup of afHidtion sweetened, all the 
injuries of the world alleviated, and 
the sweetest flowers plentifully strewed 



Reward 33 

along the most thorny paths of life. 
— Zimmerman. ^> £ «j> Whether love be 
natural or no, it contributes to the hap- 
piness of every society into which it is 
introduced. All our pleasures are short, 
and can only charm at intervals: love 
is a method of protracting our greatest 
pleasure.— Goldsmith. £££ Nothing is 
so fierce but love will soften, nothing 
so sharp-sighted in other matters but it 
throws a mist before the eyes on't. 
— 1/ Estrange. ^ £. £. Love is better than 
spectacles to make everything seem 
great. — Philip Sidney. ^ ^. A Riches take 
wings, comforts vanish, hope withers 
away, but love stays with us. Love is 

God. — Lew Wallace. & £ £ With love 

come life and hope.— John Sterling. ^^^ 
Love finds the need it fills. — George Eliot. 
^ ^ ^ Perfect love casteth out fear. 
—John, Epistle. £££ Love strengthens and 
ennobles the character, and gives nobler 
aim to every action of life. — Jewesbmy. 



34 Love 

Love, — oh, chillen, my pore tongue 
can't tell you of the beauty and good- 
ness o' the fairy Love ! She's the mes- 
senger of a great King, and spends her 
whole time a-blessin' folks. Her hair 
shines with the gold o' the sun; her 
eyes send out soft beams; her gown is 
w'ite, and when she moves 'tis as if 
forget-me-nots and violets was runnin' 
in little streams among its folds. Ah, 
chillen, she's the blessin' o' the world! 
Her soft arms are stretched out to 
gather in and comfort every sorrowin' 
heart. ___ Thg A ^ k Woman ^ 

Clara Louise Burnkam. 



S- 5- S-» 

A new commandment I give unto you, 
That ye love one another; as I have 
loved you, that ye also love one another. 

— Jesus, Holy Writ. 






'Though I speak with the tongues 
of men and of angels, and have 
not love, I am become as sounding 
brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And 
though I have the gift of prophecy, 
and understand all mysteries, and 
all knowledge ; and though I have 
all faith, so that I could remove 
mountains, and have not love, I am 
nothing. And though I bestow 
all my goods to feed the poor, and 
though I give my body to be 
burned, and have not love, it prof- 
iteth me nothing. 

Paul to the Corinthians. 



HAPPINESS 



" The best things are nearest : 
breath in your nostrils, light in 
your eyes, flowers at your feet, 
duties at your hand, the path of 
God just before you. Then do not 
grasp at the stars, but do life's 
plain, common work as it comes, 
certain that daily duties and daily 
bread are the sweetest things of 
lifer 



To ignore trifling annoyances, to 
avoid ultra-fastidiousness, to con- 
done human frailties, " remember- 
ing whereof we are all made " ; to 
think the East wind will "go 
round to the South" to believe 
that the darkest hour is just before 
dawn" — in a word, "to make the 
best of things," is to become a 
■public benefactor, without profes- 
sion of philanthropy. 

*<C" {Mrs. James Farley Cox). 



Happiness 39 

Forenoon and afternoon and night, — 

Forenoon, 
And afternoon, and night, — Forenoon, 

and — what ! 
The empty song repeats itself. No 

more ? 
Yea, that is Life : make this forenoon 

sublime, 
This afternoon a psalm, this night a 

prayer, 
And Time is conquered and thy crown 

is won. _E. R. Sill. 

^5. ^. ^. 

And with joy the stars perform their 
shining, 
And the sea its long moon-silver'd 
roll ; 
For self-poised they live, nor pine with 
noting 
All the fever of some differing soul. 

Bounded by themselves, and unre- 
gardful 
In what state God's other works may 
be, 
In their own tasks all their powers 
pouring, 
These attain the mighty life you see. 

— Matthew Arnold. 



40 Happiness 

There is an idea abroad among moral 
people that they should make their 
neighbours good. One person I have 
to make good: myself. But my duty 
to my neighbour is much more nearly 
expressed by saying that I have to make 
him happy — if I may. — R. L. S. ^ ^> & 
Happiness is that single j£ na ly S l s 
and glorious thing which 
is the very light and sun of the whole 
animated universe; and where she is 
not it were better that nothing should 
■be. — Colton. £.£.£, Happiness has no 
limits, because God has neither bottom 
nor bounds, and because happiness is 
nothing but the conquest of God through 
love. — AmieL £££ Happiness never 
lays its finger on its pulse. If we at- 
tempt to steal a glimpse of its features 

it disappears. — Alexander Smith. ^ £ £, 

Happiness is not found in self-contem- 
plation, it is perceived only when it is 
reflected from another. —Johnson. f§^ £, £ 



Analysis 41 

Happiness lies in the consciousness we 
have of it, and by no means in the way 
the future keeps its promises. — George Sand. 
«£^.^. Happiness is reflective, like the 

light of heaven. — Washington Irving. ^* j£ ^> 

Happiness grows at our own firesides, 
and is not to be picked in strangers' 
gardens. —Douglas Jerrold. ^> «§> £ Nothing 
is more idle than to inquire after happi- 
ness, which nature has kindly placed 
within our reach. —Johnson. $.«£ «£ Rays 
of happiness, like those of light, are 
colorless when unbroken. — Longfellow. 
^^.^ A happy life is not made up 
of negatives. Exemption from one 
thing is not possession of another. 
— Landor. £ £ £ Happiness consists in 
activity : such is the constitution of our 
nature; it is a running stream, and not 

a Stagnant pool. —John M. Good. £££ 

Happiness is a very beautiful thing, — 
the most beautiful and heavenly thing 
in the world, — but it is a result, a 



42 Happiness 

spiritual condition, and is not prede- 
termined by a bank account or by the 
flattering incense of praise. — Lilian Whiting. 
&>&£> There is work that is work 
and there is play that is play; there is 
play that is work and work that is play. 
And in only one of these lies happiness. 
— Gelett Burgess. £ £ ^> These are only 
hours that are not wasted — these hours 
that absorb the Soul and fill it with 
beauty. This is real life, all else is illu- 
sion, or mere endurance. — Richard Jeffries. 
Happiness in this j fJ ^ tta i nment 
world, when it 

comes, comes incidentally. Make it 
the object of pursuit, and it leads us a 
wild-goose chase, and is never attained. 
Follow some other object, and very 
possibly we may find that we have 
caught happiness without dreaming of 
it; but likely enough it is gone the 
moment we say to ourselves, " Here it 
is ! " like the chest of gold that treasure- 



Its Attainment 43 

seekers find. — Hawthorne. ^ ^ ^ There 
is no happiness, then, but in a virtuous 
and self-approving conduct. Unless 
our actions will bear the test of our 
sober judgments and reflections upon 
them, they are not the actions, and, 
consequently, not the happiness, of a 
rational being. — Franklin. £ «£, «£ Happi- 
ness pursued is never overtaken, because 
little as we are, God's image makes us 
so large that we cannot live within our- 
selves, nor even for ourselves, and be 
satisfied. It is not good for a man to 
be alone, because, rightly, self is the 
smallest part of us. Even God found 
it good not to be alone, but to create 
objects for His love and benevolence. 
—George w. Cable. Q <j> £ An aim in life 
is the only fortune worth the finding ; 
and it is not to be found in foreign 
lands, but in the heart itself. — R. L. S. 
^t $. & An inspiration is a joy for ever, 
a possession as solid as a landed estate, 



44 Happiness 

a fortune which we can never exhaust 
and which gives us year by year a rev- 
enue of pleasurable activity. To have 
many of these is to be spiritually rich. 
— R. L. S. ^^^> Happiness is only to 
be found in a recurrence to the prin- 
ciples of human nature, and these will 
prompt very simple measures. — Disraeli. 
ft ft ft Happiness is the natural flower 
of duty. — Phillips Brooks. £. £ ^> Forti- 
tude, justice, and candor, are very neces- 
sary instruments of happiness, but they 
require time and exertion. — Sydney Smith, 
ft ft. ft Those who seek for something 
more than happiness in this world must 
not complain if happiness is not their 
portion.— -Froude. <£ £ £ To be a painter 
does it suffice to arm one's self with a 
brush, or does the purchase at great 
cost of a Stradivarius make one a musi- 
cian ? No more, if you had the whole 
paraphernalia of amusement in the 
perfection of its ingenuity, would it 



Its Attainment 45 



advance you upon your road to happi- 
ness. But with a bit of crayon a great 
artist makes an immortal sketch. It 
needs talent or genius to paint; and to 
amuse one's self the faculty of being 
happy; whoever possesses it is amused at 

slight COSt. — Charles Wagner. ^ £ ^> The 

happiness or unhappiness of men de- 
pends no less upon their dispositions 

than their fortunes. — La Rochefoucauld. 

£. f§L ^ Wherever Life is simple and 
sane true pleasure accompanies it as 
fragrance does uncultivated flowers. 

— Charles Wagner. ^ £ £ And to get 

peace, if you do want it, make for 
yourself nests of pleasant thoughts. 
Those are nests on the sea, indeed, but 
safe beyond all others. Do you know 
what fairy palaces you may build of 
beautiful thought, proof against all ad- 
versity ? Bright fancies, satisfied memo- 
ries, noble histories, treasure-houses of 
precious and restful thoughts, which 



4 6 Happiness 

care cannot disturb, nor pain make 
gloomy, nor poverty take away from 
us — houses built without hands for 

OUr SOuls tO live in. — John Ruskin. ^.^^. 

Happiness is a condition attained 
through worthiness. To find your life 

yOU must lose it. — Lilian Whiting. £ £ £ 

The road to happiness is the continuous 
effort to make others happy. The chief 
aim of life ought to be usefulness, not 
happiness ; but happiness always follows 
usefulness. — Talmage. ^* «|* ^ No man 
can be happy without exercising the 
virtue of a cheerful industry or activity. 
No man can lay in his claim to happi- 
ness, I mean the happiness that shall 
last through the fair run of life, with- 
out chastity, without temperance, with- 
out sobriety, without economy, without 
self-command, and, consequently, with- 
out fortitude; and, let me add, without a 
liberal and forgiving spirit.— John M. Good. 
& & f§L If a man is unhappy, this 



Its Attainment 47 

must be his own fault; for God made 
all men to be happy. — Epictetus. ^ £ ^ 
Unfailing though tfulness of others in 
all those trifles that make up daily con- 
tact in daily life, sweetness of spirit, the 
exhilaration of gladness and of joy, and 
that exaltation of feeling which is the 
inevitable result of mental peace and 
loving thought, — these make up the 
World Beautiful, in which each one 
may live as in an atmosphere always 
attending his presence. — Lilian Wniting. 
&&& To watch the corn grow, or 
the blossoms set; to draw hard breath 
over plowshare or spade; to read, to 
think, to love, to pray, — these are the 
things that make men happy.— John Ruskin. 
& & $. He who is virtuous is wise ; and 
he who is wise is good; and he who 
is good is happy. — Boetnius. £ ^ ^ 
Df/fv There is no duty we so much 
underrate as the duty of be* 
ing happy. By being happy, we sow 



48 Happiness 

anonymous benefits upon the world, 
which remain unknown even to our- 
selves, or when they are disclosed, sur- 
prise nobody so much as the benefactor. 

— R. L. S. ^> ^> £ Let us take issue 
with despondency and break a lance 
against fear and rejoice in our day. Let 
a cheerful confidence in our country- 
men, in our institutions, in our means 
of civilization and progress, take rest 
in our hearts and live in our families. 

_«C» (Mrs. James Farley Cox). & £ £ The 

responsibility is on each and all of us 
to live on the ideal plane; to realize 
in outward action, in every deed and 
word, those qualities which we recog- 
nize as pertaining to the higher life. 
For it is these that produce the Spirit- 
ual, and to live this higher life is to 
live in happiness, even in holiness. 
—Lilian Whiting. £ f£ £ Expediency is 
man's wisdom. Doing right is God's. 

— Geo. Meredith. £ £ £ Like the king- 



Duty 



49 



dom of heaven, the World Beautiful is 
within; and it is not only a privilege, 
but an absolute duty so to live that we 
are always in its atmosphere. — Lilian Whiting. 
£> &> ^ We ought to be as cheerful as 
we can, if only because to be happy 
ourselves, is a most effectual contribu- 
tion to the happiness of others. — Lubbock. 
&&& Happiness should be regarded 
as the normal condition of life; and 
when one is below it, he should inquire 
into the reason, and see if it is not a 
result of causes which can be removed 
or changed. No one has any more right 
to go about unhappy than he has to 

go about ill-bred. — Lilian Whiting. £££ 

Today is your day and mine; the only 
day we have; the day in which we 
play our part. What our part may sig- 
nify in the great whole we may not 
understand ; but we are here to play it, 
and now is our time. This we know : 
it is a part of action, not of whining. 



So Happiness 

It is a part of love, not cynicism. It 
is for us to express love in terms of 
human helpfulness. This we know, 
for we have learned from sad experi- 
ence that any other source of life leads 

toward decay and Waste. — David Starr Jordan. 

Mankind are always r* r> j 

, / Its Rewards 

happy for having 

been happy ; so that, if you make them 
happy now, you make them happy 
twenty years hence by the memory of 

it. — Sydney Smith. ^> ^> «£ Goodness does 

not more certainly make men happy 
than happiness makes them good. 
— Landor. «g>, ^> ^ Happiness does a way 
with ugliness, and even makes the 
beauty of beauty. — Amid. ^ £ £ We 
are contented because we are happy, and 
not happy because we are contented. 
— Landor. £ «£ f£ Happiness is an equiva- 
lent for all troublesome things. — Epictetus. 
#. & & If we do our best ; if we do 
not magnify trifling troubles ; if we 



Its Rewards 5 1 

look resolutely, I do not say at the 
bright side of things, but at things as 
they really are; if we avail ourselves 
of the manifold blessings which sur- 
round us, we cannot but feel that life is 
indeed a glorious inheritance. — Lubbock. 

Praver ^^ e ^ a ^ returns anc * brings 
us the petty round of irri- 
tating concerns and duties. Help us 
to play the man, help us to perform 
then with laughter and kind faces, let 
cheerfulness abound with industry. 
Give us to go blithely on our business 
all this day, bring us to our resting beds 
weary and content and dishonoured, 
and grant us in the end the gift of 
sleep.— R. L. s. ^,«£<£ Who rises from 
Prayer a better man, his Prayer is an- 
swered. —Geo. Meredith. ^ «j» ^» For this 
reason so many fall from God, who 
have attained to Him: that they cling 
to Him with their Weakness, and 
not in their Strength. — Geo. Meredith. 



S 2 Happiness 

Recipe for a Happy Life 

Three ounces are necessary, first of 
patience, 

Then of repose and peace; of con- 
science 

A pound entire is needful: 

Of pastimes of all sorts, too, 

Should be gathered as much as the 

hand can hold; 
Of pleasant memory and of hope three 

good drachms 
There must be at least. But they should 

moistened be 
With a liquor made from true pleasures 

which rejoice the heart. 
Then of love's magic drops a few— 
But use them sparingly, for they may 

bring a flame 
Which naught but tears can drown. 
Grind the whole and mix therewith of 

merriment an ounce 
To even. Yet all this may not bring 

happiness 
Except in your orisons you lift your 

voice 
To Him who holds the gift of health. 

— Written by Margaret of Navarre in 1 500. 



Happy Thought 

The World is so full of a number 

of things, 
I'm sure we should all be as happy 

as kings. „ , 

° Robert Louts Stevenson. 



NATURE 

Nature never did betray 

The heart that loved her ; 'tis her 

privilege, 
Through all the years of this our 

life, to lead 
From joy to joy : for she can so 

inform 
The mind that is within us, so 

impress 
With quietness and beauty, and so 

feed 
With lofty thoughts, that neither 

evil tongues, 
Rash judgments, nor the sneers of 

selfish men, 
Nor greetings where no kindness 

is, nor all 
The dreary intercourse of daily 

life, ^ 
Shall eer prevail against us, or 

disturb 
Our cheerful faith, that all which 

we behold 
Is full of blessings. 

Wtrdswortb. 



There is a pleasure in the path- 
less woods, 

There is a rapture on the lonely 
shore, 

There is society where none in- 
trudes, 

By the deep Sea, and music in its 
roar : 

I love not Man the less, but 
Nature more, 

From these our interviews, in 
which I steal 

From all I may be, or have been 
before, 

To mingle with the Universe, and 
feel 

What I can neef express, yet can- 
not all conceal, 

Byron, 






Nature 57 

Under the greenwood tree 

Who loves to lie with me, 
And tune his merry note 
Unto the sweet bird's throat — 
Come hither, come hither, come hither: 
Here shall he see 
No enemy 
But winter and rough weather. 

Who doth ambition shun 

And loves to live i' the sun, 

Seeking the food he eats 

And pleased with what he gets — 

Come hither, come hither, come hither: 

Here shall he see 

No enemy 
But winter and rough weather. 

— Shakespeare. 

To him who in the love of Nature holds 
Communion with her visible forms, she 

speaks 
A various language. 

— Bryant. 



58 Nature 

Climb the mountains and get their 
good tidings. Nature's peace will flow 
into you as sunshine flows into trees. 
The winds will blow their own fresh- 
ness into you, and the storms their 
energy, while cares will drop off like 
autumn leaves. — John Muir. £ £ ^> Rest- 
ing quietly under an ash tree, with the 
scent of flowers, and the odour ©f green 
buds and leaves, a ray of sunlight yonder 
lighting up the lichen and the moss on 
the oak trunk, a gentle air stirring in 
the branches above, giving glimpses of 
fleecy clouds sailing in the ether, there 
comes into the mind a feeling of intense 
joy in the simple fact of living. — Jefferies. 
&&& What happiness to fling down 
the heavy chain of daily life and escape 
to the country, where one can breathe 
freely and taste the noble rapture of a few 
hours' independence; where the heart 
is lifted up and the thoughts turn to con- 
templation; where one is overjoyed 



Peace 59 

at finding one's self — humanity — 

alone with Nature ! — Maurice de Guerin. 

&&&. All those who love Nature she 
loves in return, and will richly reward, 
not perhaps with the good things, as 
they are commonly called, but with the 
best things, of this world; not with 
money and titles, horses and carriages, 
but with bright and happy thoughts, 
contentment and peace of mind. — John 
Lubbock. £ f£, £ By day or by night, 
summer or winter, beneath trees, the 
heart feels nearer to that depth of life 
which the far sky means. The rest of 
spirit, found only in beauty, ideal and 
pure, comes there because the distance 
seems within touch of thought. — Jefferies. 
^t & $. My garden, with its silence 
and the pulses of fragrance that come 
and go on the airy undulations, affects 
me like sweet music. Care stops at 
the gates, and gazes at me wistfully 
through the bars. Among my flowers 



60 Nature 

and trees Nature takes me into her 
own hands, and I breathe freely as 

the first man. — Alexander Smith. ^£ ^. £, 

Nature stretches out her StfCTlPth 
arms to embrace man, 
only let his thoughts be of equal great- 
ness. Willingly does she follow his 
steps with the rose and the violet, and 
bend her lines of grandeur and grace to 
the decoration of her darling child. 
Only let his thoughts be of equal scope, 
and the frame will suit the picture. 
— Emerson. ij> ^. ^ There is a majesty 
and mystery in Nature, take her as you 
will. The essence of poetry comes 
breathing to a mind that feels from 
every province of her empire. — Carlyle. 
& $. & What is it we look for in the 
landscape, in sunsets and sunrises, in the 
sea and the firmament? What but a 
compensation for the cramp and pet- 
tiness of human performances ? We 
bask in the day, and the mind finds 






Strength 61 

something as great as itself. In Nature, 
all is large, massive repose. — Emerson. 
ft ft ft The truths of Nature are one 
eternal change, one infinite variety. 
There is no bush on the face of the globe 
exactly like another bush ; there are no 
two trees in the forest whose boughs 
bend into the same net-work, nor two 
leaves on the same tree which could not 
be told one from the other, nor two 
waves in the sea exactly alike. — Ruskin. 
t Nature, like a loving mother, 

Love . . I,",, 

is ever trying to keep land and 
sea, mountain and valley, each in its 
place, to hush the angry winds and 
waves, balance the extremes of heat 
and cold, of rain and drought, that 
peace, harmony and beauty may reign 

Supreme. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton. £ ft «£ 

Where Nature is sovereign, there is no 
need of austerity and self-denial. — Froude. 
ft ft ft The love which speaks and 
sings and sighs in one part of creation 



62 Nature 

is revealed in the other half in the form 
of flowers. All this efflorescence, with 
its wealth of forms and colours and per- 
fumes, which gives splendour to the 
fields, is the expression of love, is love 
itself, which celebrates its sweet myster- 
ies in the bosom of every flower. — Maurice 
de Guerin. ^ «§> «§t Nature and truth are 
one, and immutable, and inseparable as 

beauty and love. — Mrs. Jameson. ^^,^> 

On the heaths and /-> . • / • 

T Companionship 

moors, where I l * 

have so long enjoyed the wonders of 
Nature, I have never been, I can hon- 
estly say, alone ; because when man was 
not with me, I had companions in every 
bee, and flower and pebble; and never 
idle, because I could not pass a swamp, 
or a tuft of heather, without finding in 
it a fairy tale of which I could but de- 
cipher here and there a line or two, and 
yet found them more interesting than 
all the books, save one, which were ever 



Companionship 63 

written upon earth. —Kingsley. ft ft ft 
There is no solitude in Nature. — Schiller, 
ft ft ft The tempered light of the 
woods is like a perpetual morning, and 
is stimulating and heroic. The an- 
ciently reported spells of these places 
creep on us. The stems of pines, hem- 
locks, and oaks, almost gleam like iron 
on the excited eye. The incommuni- 
cable trees begin to persuade us to live 
with them, and quit our life of solemn 
trifles. Here no history, or church, 
or state, is interpolated on the divine 
sky and the immortal year. — Emerson, 
ft ft ft Those who love Nature can 
never be dull. They may have other 
temptations ; but at least they will run 
no risk of being beguiled, by ennui,, 
idleness, or want of occupation, "to buy 
the merry madness of an hour with the 
long penitence of after time." The 
love of Nature, again, helps us greatly 
to keep ourselves free from those mean 



64 Nature 

and petty cares, which interfere so 
much with calm and peace of mind. 
It turns " every ordinary walk into a 
morning or evening sacrifice,' ' and 
brightens life until it becomes almost 
like a fairy tale. — John Lubbock. £ £ £ 
It is a great moment J nter p retat ; on 
in a man's experi- 
ence when he awakes to the wonder of 
the world about him, and begins to see 
it with his own eyes, and to feel afresh 
its subtle and penetrating charm. From 
that moment the familiar earth and sky 
become miracles once more, and his 
spirit is hourly recreated in their pres- 
ence. — Hamilton Wright Mabie. ^ £ £, To 

speak truly, few adult persons can see 
Nature, Most persons do not see the 
sun. At least they have a very super- 
ficial seeing. The sun illuminates only 
the eye of the man, but shines into the 
eye and the heart of the child. — Emerson. 
^t ^fe. ?fe To see in all mountains noth- 



I Interpretation 65 

ing but similar heaps of earth, in all 
rocks nothing but similar concretions 
of solid matter, in all trees nothing but 
similar accumulations of leaves, is no 
sign of high feeling or extended 
thought. — Ruskin. £ «j> ^. Like a great 
poet, Nature produces the greatest re- 
sults with the simplest means. These 
are simply a sun, flowers, water and love. 
Of course, if the spectator be without 
the last, the whole will present but a 
pitiful appearance; and, in that case, 
the sun is merely so many miles in dia- 
meter, the trees are good for fuel, the 
flowers are classified by stamens, and 
the water is simply wet. — Heine. ^ ^. £ 
Man is incomprehensible without 
Nature, and Nature is incomprehensible 
apart from man. For the delicate 
loveliness of the flower is as much in 
the human eye as in its own fragile 
petals, and the splendor of the heavens 
as much in the imagination that kindles 



66 Nature 

at the touch of their glory as in the shin- 
ing of COUntleSS Worlds. — Hamilton Wright 

Mabic. £, £ £ We animate what we 
can, and we see only what we animate. 
Nature and books belong to the eyes 
that see them. It depends on the mood 
of the man, whether he shall see the 
sunset or the fine poem. There are al- 
ways sunsets, and there is always genius ; 
but only a few hours so serene that we 
can relish nature or criticism. — Emerson. 
When I would beget j cf^fc 
content and increase 
confidence in the power and wisdom 
and providence of Almighty God, I will 
walk the meadows by some gliding 
stream, and there contemplate the lilies 
that take no care, and those very many 
other little living creatures that are not 
only created, but fed (man knows not 
how) by the goodness of the God of 
Nature, and therefore trust in Him. 
— Izaak Walton. ^> ^. ^> Every time that 



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A Teacher 67 

we allow ourselves to be penetrated by 
Nature, our soul is opened to the most 
touching impressions. Whether Nature 
smiles and adorns herself on her most 
beautiful days, or whether she becomes 
pale, gray, cold, and rainy, in autumn 
and in winter, there is something in 
her which moves not only the surface 
of the soul, but even its inmost depths, 
and awakens a thousand memories 
which to all appearances have no con- 
nection with the outward scene, but 
which doubtless hold communion 
with the soul of Nature through sym- 
pathies Unknown tO US. — Maurice de Guerin. 

^t f§L 4t* Nature seems to have been 
created to inspire feeling. — Thomas Stan 
King. ^, f£ «£ Nature is the true ideal- 
ist. When she serves us best, when, on 
rare days, she speaks tothe imagination, 
we feel that the huge heaven and earth 
are but a web drawn around us, that the 
light, skies and mountains are but the 



68 Nature 

painted vicissitudes of the soul. — Emerson. 
ft- ^ &> Mountains seem to have been 
built for the human race, as at once 
their schools and cathedrals; full of 
treasures of illuminated manuscript for 
the scholar, kindly in simple lessons for 
the worker, quiet in pale cloisters for 
the thinker, glorious in holiness for the 
worshipper. They are great cathedrals 
of the earth, with their gates of rock, 
pavements of cloud, choirs of stream 
and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of 
purple traversed by the continual stars. 
— Ruskin. £££ The stars awaken a 
certain reverence, because though al- 
ways present, they are inaccessible; but 
all natural objects make a kindred im- 
pression, when the mind is open to 
their influence. Nature never wears a 
mean appearance. Neither does the 
wisest man extort her secret, and lose 
his curiosity by finding out all her per- 
fection. Nature never became a toy to 



A Teacher 69 

a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, 
the mountains, reflected the wisdom 
of his best hour, as much as they had 
delighted the simplicity of his child- 
hood.— Emerson. £££ Nature is hiero- 
glyphic. Each prominent fact in it is 
like a type ; its final use is to set up one 
letter of the infinite alphabet, and help 
us, by its connections, to read some state- 
ment or statute applicable to the con- 
scious World. — Thomas Starr King. £ ^> £ 

We are shown that no suffering, no 
self-examination, however honest, how- 
ever stern, no searching-out of the heart 
by its own bitterness, is enough to con- 
vince man of his nothingness before 
God; but that the sight of God's creation 
will do it. — Ruskin. £ £ £ Nature never 
hurries: atom by atom, little by little, 
she achieves her work. The lesson one 
learns in fishing, yachting, hunting or 
planting is the manners of Nature ; — 
patience with many delays. — Emerson. 



70 Nature 

The World is too much with us; late 

and soon, 
Getting and spending, we lay waste our 

powers ; 
Little we see in Nature that is ours; 
We have given our hearts away, a sor 

did boon! —Wordsworth. 

S- 9* S- 

In June 'tis good to lie beneath a tree, 

While the blithe season comforts every 
sense, 

Steeps all the brain in rest, and heals 
the heart, 

Brimming it o'er with sweetness un- 
awares, 

Fragrant and silent as that rosy snow 

Wherewith the pitying apple-tree fills 
up, 

And tenderly lines some last year rob- 
ins nes *. -Lowell. 

5-- ^£- ^P* 
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, 
The bridal of the earth and sky ; 
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night; 

For thou must die. —Herbert. 



The year's at the Springy 
And days at the Morn ; 
Morning's at seven ; 
The bill-side's dew-pearled : 
The lark's on the wing; 
The snail's on the thorn; 
God's in his heaven — 
All's right with the world! 
Robert Browning, 



SUCCESS 



O brother, we must if possible 
resuscitate some soul and conscience 
in us, exchange our dilettantisms 
for sincerities, our dead hearts of 
stone for living hearts of flesh ! 
"Then shall we discern, not one 
thing, but, in clearer, dimmer se- 
quence, a whole endless host of things 
that can be done. Do the first of 
these: doit; the second will have 
become clearer, do abler; the second, 
third, and three-thousandth will 
then have begun to be possible 

f or US - Thomas Carlylc. 



O toiling bands of mortals! O 

unwearied feet , traveling ye know 
not whither ! Soon, soon, it seems 
to you, you must come forth on some 
conspicuous hill-top, and but a little 
way further, against the setting 
sun, descry the spires of El Do- 
rado. Little do ye know your own 
blessedness; for to travel hope- 
fully is a better thing than to 
arrive, and the true success is to 
labor. Robert Louis Sttvenst9t 



Success 75 

I Am the Captain 

of My Soul. 

Out of the night that covers me, 
Black as the Pit from pole to pole, 

I thank whatever gods may be 
For my unconquerable soul. 

In the fell clutch of circumstance 
I have not winced nor cried aloud. 

Under the bludgeonings of chance 
My head is bloody, but unbowed. 

Beyond this place of wrath and tears 
Looms but the horror of the shade, 

And yet the menace of the years 
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. 

It matters not how straight the gate, 
How charged with punishment the 
scroll, 

I am the master of my fate : 
I am the captain of my soul. 

— William Ernest Henley. 



76 Success 

I fear the popular notion of success 
stands in direct opposition in all points 
to the real and wholesome success. One 
adores public opinion, the other private 
opinion ; one fame, the other desert ; 
one feats, the other humility ; one lucre, 
the other love ; one monopoly, and the 
other hospitality of mind. — Emerson. 
& & ^ No one has success until he has 
the abounding life. This is made up 
of the many-fold activity of energy, 
enthusiasm and gladness. It is to spring 
to meet the day with a thrill at being 
alive. It is to go forth to meet the 
morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to 
realize the oneness of humanity in true 
spiritual sympathy. It is, indeed, that 
which one is; not that which he 
has. — Lilian Whiting. <£ £ £ The great 
thing in the world is not so much where 
we stand, as in what direction we are 

moving.— Oliver Wendell Holmes. £ ^* £, The 

only failure a man ought to fear is failure 



Real Success 77 

in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be 
best. — George Eliot. g. g g. Success lies, 
not in achieving what you aim at, but 
in aiming at what you ought to 
achieve, and pressing forward, sure of 
achievement here, or if not here, here- 
after. — R. F. Horton. «§> g g, To hold 
one's work — whether it be that of sell- 
ing goods behind a counter, or building 
a house, or work in the professions, 
the arts, or the industries, to hold it as 
that which forms one's medium of 
expression, one's part in the general 
community, by means of which he con- 
veys with his work, his good-will, his 
generous sympathy, — the entire sup- 
port, indeed, of that magnetic love 
which radiates from him who has the 
love of God and the love of man in his 
heart, — to give thus always of one's 
best is the true success in life. The 
lingering idea that there is caste 
in work is an unworthy one. The 



78 Success 

only caste is in character. — Lilian Whiting. 
£ £ £ Great men are the true men, 
the men in whom nature has succeeded. 
They are not extraordinary, they are in 
the true order. It is the other species 
of men who are not what they 

OUght tO be. — Amiel's Journal. £ ^ £ 

Health, happiness, and 
good rcpute,nay, even, Attainment 
in the long run, prosperity and wealth 
are promised to, are given to, the 
man who lives uprightly and keeps 
his garments clean and his hands 

busy. — Charles Wagner. ^ ^ ^, SuCCeSS 

consists in close appliance to the laws 
of the world and, since those laws are 
intellectual and moral, an intellectual 
and moral obedience. Political Econo- 
my is a book wherein to read the 
life of man, and the ascendency 
of laws over all private and hostile 
influences. — Emerson. £ £ £ The talent 
of success is nothing more than doing 






Attainment 79 

what you can do well ; and doing well 
whatever you do, without a thought of 
fame. — Longfellow. ^ £ £ Success surely 
comes with conscience in the long run, 
other things being equal. Capacity 
and fidelity are commercially profitable 

equalities. — Henry Ward Beecher. ^. ^> ^ 

Success treads on the heels of every 
right effort ; and though it is possible 
to overestimate success to the extent 
of almost defying it, as is sometimes 
done, still in any worthy pursuit it is 
meritorious.— Samuel Smiles. £ £ £ Every 
task that we master adds to our re- 
serve fund of strength and spiritual 
force. Every task that masters us de- 
pletes our spiritual force and decreases 
our strength of character. —Dorothy Quigley. 
^ & &> All successful men have agreed 
in one thing, — they were causationist. 
They believed that things went not by 
luck, but by law. Belief in compensa- 
tion, or, that nothing is got for 



80 Success 

nothing, — characterizes all valuable 
minds. — Emerson, ^.^b^. It is a great 
presumption to ascribe our success to 
our own management, and not to esteem 
ourselves upon any blessing, rather as it 
is the bounty of heaven, than the acqui- 
sition of our own prudence. — Addison, 
^t^^. The secret of many a man's 
success in the world resides in his in- 
sight into the moods of men, and his 
tact in dealing with them.— Timothy Titcomb. 
& £ «£ Success is the child of Audac- 
ity. —Disraeli. ^>^>^. To succeed you 
must not dissipate your precious force 
in unwise sympathy. Do not spill your 
soul in running hither and yon grieving 
over the misfortunes, the mistakes, and 
the vices of others. The one person 
whom it is most necessary in this world 

tO reform is yourself.— Dorothy Quigley. 

^^k^fe It is well to have visions 
of a better life than that of every day, 
but it is the life of every day from 



Attainment Si 

which elements of a better life must 
come.— Maeterlinck. «£ £ £ Work as they 
work, who are ambitious. Respect life, 
as they respect it who desire it. Be 
happy, as they are happy who live for 

happiness alone. —Hindu Maxim. ^*^>^> 

The secret of success still lies in the 
same old word, " drudgery." For 
drudgery is the doing of one thing, one 
thing, one thing, long after it ceases to 
be amusing ; and it is this " one thing I 
do " that gathers me together from my 
chaos, that concentrates me from possi- 
bilities to powers. That whole long 
string of habits, — attention, method, 
patience, self-control, and the others, — 
can be summed up in the word " con- 
centration." " One thing I do," said 
Paul ; and, apart from what his one 
thing was, in that phrase he gave the 
watchword of salvation. — w. C. Gannett. 
^-^•^ The essentials of success, on 
the inner side, are a high ideal, self- 



82 Success 

knowledge, self-control, and self-culti- 
vation ; and, on the outer, self-realization, 
tempered by ethical recognition of 

Society. — Horatio W. Dresser. £ ^> ^> The 

clinching of good purposes with right 
actions is what makes the man. This 
higher heredity does not come from 
one's father or mother, but is the work 

of the man on himself. — David Starr Jordan. 

«£ £ & The only road to advancement 
is to do your work so well that you are 
always ahead of the demands of your 
position. Our employers do not decide 
whether we shall stay where we are or 
go on and up ; we decide that matter 
ourselves. Success or failure are not 
chosen for us ; we choose them for our- 
selves. — Hamilton Wright Mabie. ^> £, «jt 
The successful man takes plenty of time 
for thought. He carefully looks the 
ground over, searches for weak and 
strong points, then adjusts himself to 
the needed conditions. — Dresser. 



Attainment 83 

You will succeed best when you put 
the restless, anxious side of affairs out 
of mind, and allow the restful side to 

live in your thoughts.— Margaret Stowc. 

^•^-^ Every success in life comes 
from sympathy and co-operation and 

love.— -Benjamin Ide Wheeler. ^> £, £ There 

is but one good fortune to the earnest 
man. This is opportunity ; and sooner 
or later, opportunity will come to him 

who Can make USe of it. — David Starr Jordan. 

Self-Confidence Self - trust is the r 

J first secret of 

success, the belief that, if you are here, 
the authorities of the universe put you 
here, and for cause, or with some task 
strictly appointed you in your constitu- 
tion, and so long as you work at that 
you are well and successful. — Emerson. 
$.^$. Properly directed effort gene- 
rates energy. Energy is life, life is the 
manifestation of the spirit. Give your 
spirit room to express itself. Use the 



84 Success 

forces within you intelligently, fear- 
lessly, joyously, triumphantly, persistent- 
ly, and you will SUCCeed. —Dorothy Quigley. 

ft ft ft Self-distrust is the cause of 
most of our failures. In the assurance 
of strength there is strength, and 
they are weakest, however strong, who 
have no faith in themselves, or their 
powers. — Boric. J§> £ £ To confide in 
one's self, and be something of worth 
and value. — Michael Angclo. £ £ £ Success 
or failure in any line is dependent upon 
the faith of the thinker in his power to 
accomplish the work before him. The 
positive character that determines to 
attain the thing desired must approach 
more nearly the goal than the vacillat- 
ing, hesitating thinker who fears 

failure.— Dorothy Quigley. £ ^> «f> Be 

what Nature intended you for and you 

will SUCCeed. — Sydney Smith. £, «£ £ The 

proper kind of self-trust begets self- 
assertion, and self-assertion is one of 



Self-Confidence 85 

the most potent elements of success. 
That is the reason so many of the so- 
called bad, selfish, disagreeable people 
in life succeed. They assert them- 
selves.— Dorothy Quigley. ^» ^> «£ New, 
daring, and inspiring ideas are engen- 
dered only in a clear head over a glow- 
ing heart. — F. Jacobs. <§* £ £ Who ever 
wishes to accomplish anything in any 
career of life, must first of all be faith- 
ful tO his OWn nature. — Alma Tadema. 

^ ^ ^ Why should we call ourselves 
men, unless it be to succeed in every- 
thing, everywhere ? Say of nothing, 
" This is beneath me," nor feel that any- 
thing is beyond your powers. Nothing 
is impossible to the man who can 
will. — Mirabeau. «£ ^ ^> Try thyself un- 
weariedly till thou findest the highest 
thing thou art capable of doing, facul- 
ties and outward circumstances being 
both duly considered; and then do 
it—]* Stuart Mill, ^^^b He is great who 



86 Success 

is what he is from nature, and who 
never reminds us of others. — Emerson. 
Experience shows 

,1 , . , Determination 

that success is due 

less to ability than to zeal. The win- 
ner is he who gives himself to his work, 

body and Soul. .— Charles Buxton. £ £ £ 

To wish is of slight moment; thou 
oughtest to desire with earnestness to 
be successful. — Ovid. £ £, £ It is true 
there is much to be done, and perhaps 
you are weak-handed; but stick to it 
steadily and you will see great effects, 
for "constant dropping wears away 
stones; and by diligence and patience 
the mouse ate in two the cable ; and little 

Strokes fell great Oaks." — Benjamin Franklin. 

& ^ ^ Good luck is another name 

for tenacity of purpose. — Emerson. £ £ £ 

The more powerful the obstacles, the 
more glory we have in overcoming 
it. — Moliere. £, £ ^ A strenuous soul 

hates cheap SUCCeSSeS. — Emerson. <£^^ 



Determination 87 

In every walk in life, strength comes 
from effort. It is the habit of self- 
denial which gives the advantage to men 
we call self-made. He is often very 
poorly put together. His education is 
incomplete ; his manners may be un- 
couth. His prejudices are often strong. 
He may worship himself and his own 
oddities. But if he is successful in any 
way in life, he has learned to resist. 
He has learned the value of money, 
and he has learned how to refuse to 
spend it. He has learned the value of 
time, and how to convert it into money, 
and he has learned to resist all tempta- 
tions to throw either money or time 
away. He has learned to say NO. To 
say NO at the right time, and then to 
stand by it, is the first element of suc- 
cess. — David Starr Jordan. £ £ £ Success 

in life is a matter not so much of talent 
or opportunity as of concentration 
and perseverance. — Charles w. Wendte. 



?ss 



88 Succes, 



Attend carefully to the details of your 
business. 

Be prompt in all things. 

Consider well, then decide positively. 

Dare to do right ; fear to do wrong. 

Endure trials patiently. 

Fight life's battles bravely, manfully. 

Go not into the society of the vicious. 

Hold integrity sacred. 

Injure not another's reputation or busi- 
ness. 

Join hands only with the virtuous. 

Keep your mind from evil thoughts. 

Lie not for any consideration. 

Make few acquaintances. 

Never try to appear what you are not. 

Observe good manners. 

Pay your debts promptly. 

Question not the veracity of a friend. 

Respect the counsel of your parents. 

Sacrifice money rather than principle. 

Touch not, taste not, handle not in- 
toxicating drinks. 

Use your leisure time for improvement. 

'Xtend to every one a kindly salutation. 

Yield not to discouragement. 

Zealously labor for the right, and suc- 
cess is certain. 

- — Baron Rothschild's Maxims. 
L.OFC. 



I judge it better, indeed, 
To seek in life, as now I know I 

sought, 
Some fair, impossible love, which 

slays our life; 
Some fair Ideal, raised too high 

for man; 
And failing, to grow mad, and 

cease to be, 
Than to decline, as they do who 

have found 
Broad-paunch ed content, and weal, 

and happiness ; 
And so an end. For one day, as 

I know, 
The high aim unfulfilled fulfils it- 
self; 
The deep, unsatisfied thirst is sat- 

Lewis Morris. 



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OF FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, HAPPINESS, 
NATURE, & SUCCESS. COMPOSED 
BY PAUL ELDER, WITH DECORA- 
TIONS FOR TITLE PAGE tf COVER 
BY ROBERT WILSON HYDE. PUB- 
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